A CONVICTED CON MAN…..Once sold a “solar powered clothes dryer”…..in national magazines for $49.95…..unsuspecting customers would receive…..just the length of a clothesline.
IN 1991….A woman was sentenced to life in prison for poisoning her child with antifreeze…..while jailed, she gave birth to s second child…..who was placed in foster care….the child later became ill with similar symptoms…..suggesting a genetic metabolic disorder rather than poisoning……as a result, she was eventually released from prison.
IN 1974…..North Korea received 1,000 Volvos from Sweden….but never paid for them…..the outstanding debt, including interest…..has now exceeded $300 million…..Sweden continues to send payment reminders to this day…..making this incident the most significant car theft in history.
IN JUNE 2007….A man in Michigan was crossing an intersection when his electric wheelchair…..accidentally got hooked in the front grill of a semi-truck…..he was pushed for nearly two mile at about 80 km/m…..and walked away completely uninjured….yeah, I asked the same question….how did he walk away….when he was in a wheelchair?
A FLORIDA MAN….Used a cel phone jammer every day….while traveling to work…..because he didn’t want drivers around him distracted by their phones….as a result, he was fined $48,,000 by the FCC….don’t know about you….but should have a GoFundMe me account.
A WOMAN…..Secretly kept her lover hidden in her attic…..for over a decade….he emerged only to kill her husband….after the murder, he continued to live in the attic…..for another eight years.
IN 1988…..Ivan McGuire….a 53-year-old skydiver with over 800 jumps…..lost his life in a tragic accident….he had gone up in a plane to film a student and their instructor during a skydive….sadly, he jumped without realizing he wasn’t wearing a parachute….the fall happened from about 10,500 feet…..the camera footage of the fatal fall was recovered….and survived.
AT THE 1936 OLYMPICS…..Japanese pole vaulter Shuhei Nishida and Sueo Oe tied for the silver medal…..when asked to compete in a tie-breaker they refused…..officials gave the silver to Nishida and the bronze to Oe…..but the two athletes did something beautiful….they cut their medals in half and fused them….creating two “friendship medals”….each half silver and half bronze.
IN 1948…..On a remote island off the coast of Scotland….George Orwell was dying of tuberculosis…..and racing to finish the most important book of his life….he lived alone in a cold farmhouse in Jura…..coughing up blood, wrapped in blankets, typing through fever and collapse….doctors told him to stop….but he refused….the book was 1984….a final writing about power, language and control……he finished just in time and seven months after it was published….Orwell was dead.
THE ANCIENT GREEKS….had six unique words to describe different types of love….EROS….representing passionate sexual desire…..PHILIA….signifying deep friendship….LUDUS….referring to playful or flirtatious love……AGAPE….embodying unconditional selfless love…..PRAGMA…..describing enduring long-term love….and PHILAUTIA….meaning self-love
HIDDEN FOR OVER 450 YEARS….in a convent….a nun’s massive 21-foot long Last Supper….from 1568 finally underwent restoration……Plautilla Nelli’s masterpiece….astonished the public in 2019